State v. Shepherd Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2006
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Thornhill v. Alabama · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Parker v. Levy · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who enters into a contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or in restraint of free and open competition in any transaction with the state or any agency thereof, ... shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.